The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-20
ABOUT WOMEN.

There are 60, 900 women farmers in Ire
land.
Signora Fanny zampini Salazaro is the
editor of new monthly mag zine just
started in Rome, devoted to the interests
OF Italian women.
Fencing clubs for women are popular
in New York during Lent Girls enjoy
the exercise. The sport compels them to
put away corsets and French heels
A half-century ago in Turkey it was
considered shame for women TO re I'd.
To-day two schools in Consiantinople
have been established by the Sui an him
self.
The WaldensIans, at the General Confer
ence at Florence, Italy. have decreed that
hereafter women members shall be allowed
to vote, but not to speak at church meet
ings.
The woman suffrage constitutional
amendment, which passed the Rhode
Island Senate % to s, has now passed the
House, SO TO 5, and will be submitted to
the voters early in April.
Mr.. Norman W. Dodge, of New York.
has instituted prize of $500, to be award
ed at each annual exhibition of the Acad-
envy to the best picture painted in the
United States by woman.
Mrs. NJ. s. Durrell, wife of Judge E. Fl.
Durrell, and Miss A L. Geba hard have
been awarded medal from the American
Institute for a patented attachment for
water heating 10 steam radiators.
Women constitute two-thirds Of our
church members and only one fifth of our
criminals. Yet there are still people who
say that women suffrage would strengthen
the political power of vice and crime
Let US be honest and admit what we all
know, that the real reason why the right
of suffrage is denied TO women is because
there is just trace enough of ancient bar.
barism lingering in our civilization to bar
them out.
We need the participation of woman In
the ballot-box. 1t is idle to fear thai she
will meet with disrespect or insult at the
polls. Let her walk up firmly and mod
esty to deposit ba vote, ana if anyone
ventures to modest her, the crowd will
swallow him up as the whale swal owed
JONAH Henry Ward Beecher.)
The paper of Miss Mary E. Byrd, assist
ant in the mathematical department Of
Carleton College, en- sPopu ar Falacies
dHOut OUSSffdtOIltS, Q6lN6F6u DIT Tile lay
ing of the corner stone of the new obserya-
tory, last fall, is being extensively. copied
by scientific papers in England and on the
Continent.
No man can take out a license to marry
the minor daughter of another without
his consent. But the law virtually gives
every man license to seduce the minor
daughter of his neighbor, and the childs
own consent discharges him of all penal
ty. 1t is no wonder that the various
women's associations are asking to have
the law changed. II mohers were voters,
such law could never have been passed.
Women need the ballot to protect that
which most men opposed to universal suf-
frage are so anxious to emphasize as her
especial sphere, the home. She needs to
protect her husband, and her brothers,
aud sons, against the assaults of the drink
maria. She needs to guard her children
against the temptations of vice in itera-
lure and AR. Never tell me that women
do not need the ballot because they are SO
well cherished and protected already.
very much fear there never will be time
when all the good people in this world
can dispense with any effective weapon
against wrong.-Prof. W. II. Carruth)